LETS Resources |
| EF Schumacher Society | Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues. |
| International Journal of Community Currency Research | The aim of this journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community currencies being used throughout the world both at present and in the past. |
| Openmoney | The open money project is a work in progress - a continuation of almost 20 years of LETSystem development all over the world, two community way projects in Canada using smart cards, the Japan open money project, and, most recently, a community currencies server program, cybercredits. |
| Time Dollars Institute | Develop, test, and assist experiments with a new medium of exchange, Time Dollars (also known as service credits or time banking), designed to reward altruism, to turn strangers into extended family, to rebuild community and to empower persons discarded as useless to define themselves as contributors helping to meet critical social needs. |
LETS Networks |
| LETS-Linkup | FREE linkup to local community exchange groups worldwide. |
Fair Shares
UK | Fair Shares is a Charitable Trust set up in January 1998 to explore the practical applications of using time as a currency to rebuild communities in the UK. |
LETS LINK UK Network
UK | At least 40,000 people are involved in the UK's 450 LETS schemes, most of them established according to the democratic and co-operative LETS model developed in Britain by LETSLINK UK during the 1990s. |
LETS Forum
UK | LETS Forum is dedicated to free and low cost alternatives in an increasingly money orientated world, including Local Exchange Trading Schemes and other social inventions. |
LETS in Cornwall
UK | LETS in the South West of England. |
LETS CR
Czech Republic
| In the Czech Republic the first LETS was established in autumn 1999 and nowadays there are several systems there. |
SANE
South Africa | An independent network for the creation of a humane, just, sustainable and culturally appropriate economic system in South Africa. |
Strohalm
The Netherlands | Strohalm ontwikkelt rentevrije, lokale geldsystemen in Nederland en de Derde Wereld voor een eerlijke, duurzame economie. |
LETS kringen in NL
The Netherlands | Kaart met LETS kringen in Nederland. |
LETS Vlaanderen
Belgium | LETS Vlaanderen vzw is het steunpunt van en voor LETS-groepen in Vlaanderen. LETS Vlaanderen is samengesteld uit LETS-leden, uit verschillende Vlaamse LETS-groepen. Samen willen zij binnen deze stichting ondersteuning bieden aan beginnende en bestaande LETS-groepen. |
SEL'idaire
France | Ateliers, bibliothèque, activités, liens, listes, carte des sels en France, ... |
Local Currencies - LETS |
USA |
Ithaca Hours
Ithaca, NY | Local currency that pays for plumbing, renting or even loans. Business contacts, articles, video available. |
Madison Hours
Madison, WI | Madison Hours are community currency, issued by the people of the Madison area to increase our local money supply. Because they remain local, Hours enhance and strengthen the economy by employing a local person each time they circulate, without ever draining away to distant parts of the country or world. |
Maine Time Banks
Maine | Our growing Network of over 200 members (from ages 7-87) is currently exchanging an average of 600 hours of services per month! In just two years, we have exchanged a total of over 10,000 hours of service with each other. |
Blooming Hours
Bloomington, IN | BloomingHOURS are Bloomington's hometown paper money bills! They give us a way to trade and barter with each other, to work together more, and to build friendships through sharing our talents. |
Gainesville Barter Network
Gainesville, FL | The Gainesville Barter Network issues our very own local currency, GainesvilleHOURS, for the purpose of local economic activity and exchange; founded in 1997, all individuals, businesses and non-profits are invited to participate. |
Cascadia Hour Exchange
Portland, OR | CHE hours stimulate local business by recycling their wealth. It is backed up by real capital, skills, goods, and services. Participation in CHE opens the door to meet new opportunities. It builds rich and rewarding friendships and improves the local economic community. CHE is based on high values of ethics, integrity and standards that develop deep trust in one another. CHE was established in 1994. |
Equal Dollars
Philadelphia, PA | Equal Dollars is a legally structured community based currency and trading system, enabling communities and members to enjoy US Dollars savings and creatively/cooperatively share resources. |
Green Mountain Hours
Montpellier, VT | Did you know that Central Vermont has its own currency — Green Mountain Hours — that can be spent just like federal money for many local goods and services? Green Mountain Hours can only be spent locally, so they’ll circulate over and over again, adding to our region’s economy each time they change hands. |
The Burlington Currency Project
Burlington, VT | Burlington Bread, a local currency, is a tool for strengthening our local economy, supporting small businesses, and encouraging exchange between individuals in the community. |
Flagstaff Neighborly Notes
Flagstaff, AZ | Flagstaff Neighborly Notes are a local medium of exchange sponsored by Flagstaff Tea Party. Flagstaff Neighborly Notes serve the greater Flagstaff area, the city and surrounding county areas that depend primarily on Flagstaff for work and school, as well as shopping. |
Ukiah Hours
Ukiah, CA | Ukiah HOURS is a local project which is developing a community-based, local currency for the Ukiah economic trading region (Potter Valley to Hopland). |
Canada |
Saltspring Island Dollars
BC
| The Salt Spring Island Dollars Project helps to put our local art, commerce and goodwill into circulation. Salt Spring Island Issued Dollars, symbolized by $$, is the very first alternative, local currency in the world that is backed 100% by a national currency - the Canadian Dollar. |
Calgary Dollars
Alberta | Calgary Dollars uses a bi-monthly newspaper that alternates months with a listings update newsletter and monthly potlucks, along with this website, to connect businesses and individuals who want to get what they need without using money. |
Toronto Dollars
Ontario | Local currency of Toronto. Canadian Dollars can be exchanged at tellers against the Toronto Dollar! |
Europe |
LETS Antwerpen Stad
Belgium | Lets Antwerpen begon in december '95. De leden wonen verspreid over de hele stad, ook op linkeroever en daarbuiten. |
LETS Gent
Belgium | Het LETS systeem werd in Gent in 1995 opgericht door een groepje vrienden en kennissen. |
LETSland
The Netherlands | De Stichting LETSland is een overkoepelende organisatie van de LETSbeweging in Nederland. Het doel van de Stichting is: het bewerkstelligen van een goed funktionerende LETSbeweging in Nederland. |
DenHaag Lets
The Netherlands | DenHaagLets is een lokale ruilkring, een moderne vorm om diensten en goederen uit te wisselen. |
Ruilkring Delft
The Netherlands | De Ruilkring Delft, is opgericht in 1997. |
LETS Utrecht
The Netherlands | Het Sterrenstelsel in Utrecht kan het beste gezien worden als een hele grote vriendenkring, waarbij diensten en goederen worden aangeboden via advertenties in Sterrenstof, die vijf maal per jaar uitkomt. |
NOPPES
The Netherlands | NOPPES is van oorsprong een 'LETSysteem' en is in 1993 door Aktie Strohalm uit Utrecht opgezet. LETS is de internationale term voor handelsnetwerken zoals NOPPES. NOPPES is opgezet om te kunnen experimenteren met het LETSidee. |
Australia |
| Bega Valley Lets | The Bega Valley Local Employment Trading System (BVLets) is one of a worldwide network of alternative trading systems. Based on the Far South Coast of NSW, Australia, the BVLets member community exchanges a wide variety of goods and services every year. |
| Canberra LETS Trading Club |
A Local Energy Trading System, operating in the Canberra region of Australia, to provide an information network for members to trade their skills, goods and services using an internal community currency called QBs. |
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